What's religion got to do with it?

The AKC {Associateship of King’s College} is a course dating back to 1829 with the motto: sancte et sapienter, "holiness and wisdom" which, to this day, claims the equivalent BA course "remains faithful to this commitment to taking religion seriously". 

Meaning what? Who on earth takes religion seriously? You either are religious and go to church and all that. Or, if you're like me, you rarely think about religion. And there's a substantial amount of people who couldn't care less about religion. No-one is obliged to take religion seriously. 

And what 18-21 year old wants to be preached at when they go to uni? They usually choose a uni far from home to get away from their parents not to then fall into some hierarchical religious and social control system. I'd love to see these students' faces when they see two religious ministers walking down the corridor. That's enough to inhibit any conversation. 

Why is the course necessary? The teenagers have been in the world and come across others of different faiths, or none, different cultures and so on. They haven't lived in a darkened room waiting for KCL to awaken them from their slumber.

Is this favouring KCL students in the job market and obtaining further academic qualifications? If so, KCL students have a flexi pass to life that other graduates don't have. Surely not! That would be unfair!

It's a 3 year long course 🫣 so runs alongside students' degrees. Why? Don't they have enough work to do for their degree? It appears to rope in anyone and everyone they can drum up, from current students, to alumni to even staff. Staff shouldn't be expected to attend something religious regardless of their subject or beliefs even if the claim is you do other topics such as, London. Ooh! How nice! What staff member wants to look silly becoming a student at the same time as lecturing to students at the same uni?🤦🏻 

How much pressure is exerted on people to do this course? As for alumni, are you seriously expecting them to find time to do a non-degree course that, as far as I can see, no other uni offers. 

I wouldn't want to do a course like that no matter whether as a student, staff or alumni.

This course seems to be managed through KCL's Dean's Office, comprised of this glorified 'holiness' course convener labelled a director and two Reverends, labelled Dean and Vice-Dean! And students there pay fees not only to go to uni to do a degree but KCL students have to pay for an unnecessary course on top of the usual fees. Lucky them! 🤯 Not forgetting, they're charging them £6 just to beg a board to use the AKC letters after their name. Talk about power and control. But you don't email the director to ask to be elected so you can use the letters it's all done through pressing a button on their e-store. Although staff have to be careful - simply emailing the AKC Office with their full name, title and date of birth is enough for someone to set up an entire AKC student profile for that member of staff! 😱 

Is AKC a code for- I'm religious give me the job or PhD. 😂 This course surely implies that a degree isn't good enough on its own anymore. If you want a 'leg up' do an AKC. So now we're back to the 19th century idea of after a degree you're expected to become a religious minister which was the original intention of this course, way back in time.🤔

Since when has the UK become a theocracy? Or surreptitiously trying to become a theocracy?